Comparison

Orah Staff App vs Vector Fields

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Orah Staff App

A student management system designed for schools to streamline boarding operations. It allows staff to easily manage student check-ins, leave requests, and conduct rolls digitally, replacing traditional paper-based methods.

Highlights
  • Student sign in/out
  • Leave request management
  • Digital roll calls
  • Cross-platform access
  • Replaces paper systems
Features
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Boardingware is now Orah! This reflects our new commitment to building elegant software experiences for our schools, students and parents - both inside and outside of Residential Life, or boarding. We’re excited to share this moment with you and invite you to experience Orah. Orah is a safe and simple student management system for schools. Forget clipboards, and tedious paper based systems, Orah lets staff manage their boarders effortlessly from their iPad, mobile phone, or computer. With our iOS app you can sign students in and out, accept and decline leave requests, perform rolls and much more.

About

Vector Fields

Features
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See a vector field standing in the room in front of you. Vector Fields turns any three-component vector field into arrows you can walk around. Type something like -y, x, 0 and it appears in augmented reality, drawn in the space in front of you at true scale. Built for anyone learning or teaching multivariable calculus, where the hardest part is often picturing what a field actually looks like. Rotation, divergence and flow stop being abstractions once you can lean in and look along an axis. WRITE ORDINARY MATH Expressions are ordinary notation, not code. Implicit multiplication works, so 2x, 3sin(y) and (x+1)(x-1) all parse. Powers use ^ and are right associative. Odd roots of negative numbers give real answers, so (-8)^(1/3) is -2 rather than an error. Supported throughout: sine, cosine, tangent and their reciprocals, inverse and hyperbolic forms, exp, natural and arbitrary-base logs, square and cube roots, hypot, floor, ceil, round, sign, min, max, clamp, mod, and radian/degree conversion. Constants pi, tau, e and phi are built in. MISTAKES ARE EXPLAINED, NOT PUNISHED An unknown function, a stray operator or the wrong argument count produces a plain-language explanation rather than a failure. Some slips are repaired automatically and reported: a missing closing parenthesis is inserted where it belongs, parentheses wrapped around a whole field are removed, and commas inside a function call are no longer mistaken for component separators. SEE IT THE WAY YOU WANT Arrow length tracks the magnitude of the vector at each point, and a slider scales every arrow at once. A second slider sets thickness. Both update the field as you drag. MOVE THE ORIGIN Print ArUco marker ID 0 from the 6x6 dictionary at 100 mm wide (https://chev.me/arucogen/ generates it) and point the camera at it to move the world origin, and with it the grid and every arrow, onto the marker. Useful for putting the field on a desk in front of a class rather than wherever you happened to be standing. People occlusion is supported on devices that offer it, so someone walking through the field is drawn in front of the arrows instead of behind them. Requires an iPhone or iPad with ARKit support. No account, no ads, no tracking and no internet connection needed. Nothing you type ever leaves your device.

Screenshots

Orah Staff App4 screens
Vector Fields3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Vector Fields at daily against Orah Staff App's every 4 days. Orah Staff App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orah Staff App ships an update every 4 days, Vector Fields daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Orah Staff App versus Vector Fields: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrah Staff AppVector Fields
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoardingwareSachin Agrawal

In-app purchases

None

Orah Staff App

No in-app purchases

None

Vector Fields

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orah Staff App free?
Orah Staff App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vector Fields free?
Vector Fields is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orah Staff App or Vector Fields have ads?
Neither Orah Staff App nor Vector Fields shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orah Staff App or Vector Fields?
Orah Staff App ships an update every 4 days, and Vector Fields daily. Most recently, Orah Staff App was updated on November 6, 2026 and Vector Fields on October 29, 2026.

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